Without much fanfare we released ROMX+ earlier this year, and that was a little unfair on it to be honest, as its truly a great product.

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It's not surprising to find some misunderstanding out there about this new item. The most prominent "myth" is that ROMX+ is just a ROMX with the addition of a...

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Jeff just made me aware of a new Apple II/II+ ROM image that he's been working on called Kiosk Mode. This came about following a discussion with Tony359 on the Applefritter forum :

Tony359 :

Hi all,

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to perform a hard reset on an Apple II+ without ha...

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Nine months since the last blog entry - wow. Time has really flown by this year. I've been busy with all kinds of things - some ROMX related, but mostly the day job I'm afraid.

We did get some cool stuff done though. A couple of Gyve cards were built and given a bit of a hardware shakedown.

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I've updated my logic analysis system. The old one was a HP 16602A - 102 channels (not upgradeable) with 100MHz state and 500MHz timing analysis. It was running HP-UX and took a long while to boot, but once running it actually worked well. I spotted an Agilent 16902A for sale locally in Australia t...

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Happy New Year everyone! Well - a belated Happy New Year anyway as it's almost February already - crikey! I hope everyone had a chance to tinker with their favourite vintage computers over the Christmas period.

Not ROMX related, but I was able to get some repair work done, which was good. One rep...

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